• Righteous Pigskin

    One of the great things about talking about Michigan football history is that I find often the story tends to evolve after the initial post, tweet or article.   The boys at Stunt3 Multimedia know this well, and here’s another example.   They’ve been showing the latest cut of their fine documentary Black and Blue around the country and talking to many folks along the way.  I recently interviewed director Brian Kruger from Stunt3 (check out the full interview in the next issue of GoBlueWolverine Mag) and he talked about a great discovery: “A few weeks ago a woman called me. She said her father was John Regeczi, who played on the teams with Gerald Ford and Willis Ward, those three years. She was very excited about that and she was telling me some stories.  After about ten minutes I figured the conversation would wind down, but then she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, we have the game ball.’ [laughs]   I was like, ‘What?!’.” Indeed it appears as thought the game ball to the controversial 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech game exists.   Brian told me the owner, who lives in California, was kind enough to take a few pics of the ball and send them over to Kruger, who in turn relayed a couple to me.   Check it out: And I thought my…